The Krampus (and other unusual Christmas traditions)

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 10 December 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This will be the last radio podcast until the Christmas holiday. It's a romp around the globe, as we explore some Christmas traditions beyond Santa, Frosty the Snowman, holiday ham, and the baby Jesus.

Get ready for Christmas witches, fried chicken feasts, Festivus ("for the rest of us"), the Spanish pooper, and of course, the Krampus.

Seth writes about the Krampus (and many other things) in his book, "Sacred Cows: a Lighthearted Look at Belief and Tradition Around the World."

Transcript

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0:36.6	Assume nothing.
0:38.4	Branch ball-faced blasphemy.
0:40.6	Question. Everything.
0:42.6	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:46.6	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:48.8	The fastest growing group of people in the country has been measured as being those who have no belief or who are atheists.
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0:57.6	Challenge the opposition.
0:59.2	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
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